GUARDIAN FROM NEPTUNE : ZEAL

39

 VAER

EIGHTEEN YEARS BIRTHDAY RECALLS

"What place is this?"

Surprise, I questioned Erina while she walked beside me and her boyfriend and Wendel walked behind over us. They talked about a subject of boys. Erina began to shake with the sound of music from the Theatre of Tragedy band, melody named Samantha. At that instant, she began to stomp her feet on the floor and shake her hands up, feeling really infected by the agitated music.

She stared at me, bringing her face closer to mine and gave me a contagious smile with her lips adorned with a blue lipstick.

"Pay attention to it, friend! We are in a nightclub!"

At that second, she began to dance, turning sideways. The four of us stopped at the dance floor and Gaboh and Erina started dancing facing each other. They were shaking their heads to each other as well as smiled a big fun.

Not knowing how to behave like them, I stood in the same place, imagining I only knew how to dance classical music in period dances at the castle of my grandfather, where just five creatures were present.

Only on the occasion that Uncle Valmont went with his family, then the number of beings increased in the dances organized by my grandfather.

But coming back to my realism, I perceived the agitation in the club was interesting. There were many humans and a lot of fun by the way. Because they danced all the time and never seemed tired or willing to have a break in their movements.

Wendel stood beside me and he like me apparently could not dance that kind of music. In this point, we both seemed perfect for each other.

It was not long for this to happen, the lively music ended. And another melody started then. It was the same band, Theatre of Tragedy, but the song was named 'A distance there is'.

Soon I realized that people also changed their rhythms of dance and couples invaded the dance floor and started dancing this tune more calmly and in a gentle, serene and so beautiful form. I looked at Erina and saw her dancing slowly glued to her boyfriend. They formed a so beautiful couple.

When finished thinking about it, immediately I felt my hand being held in soft form and I looked in the direction of my hand and I recognized the hand that was holding mine. Then I lifted my eyes and stared a little surprise at Wendel's face. He gave me a timid smile.

"Can we dance to this music?"

"Yes ..." I responded a little confused. "Of course..."

He ended up pulling me closer to the center of the dance floor and stopped in front of me. His hand held mine while his other hand gently touched the side of my waist. We looked at each other, under purple, blue and white lights that changed the color of our skins and clothing.

As a magic charm, I felt I was being led to a slow dance. It was not a waltz, but sometimes our footsteps mingled with it.

Within a few seconds, Wendel also tried to focus on the dance measure but ended up stepping on my foot.

Then he looked down, towards my foot and offered me pardons.

"Excuse me."

I stared at him in the face and reminded me of my 18th birthday and the dance scene in the castle came back to my mind. Like a scene on TV, so clear to the spectators sitting on the couches of their homes.

Flashes of my eighteenth birthday

But in the turn of Enzo, he purposely stepped on my foot and smiled at me with an ironic air.

Suddenly he stopped dancing and went out the room hurriedly, going into the other room of the castle that had several huge and rounded shapes pilasters. At that minute, I held the skirt of my long dress and saw myself running after him. Everyone there realized that we were in one of our plays.

The years had passed by, but my spirit of the little girl had not abandoned me and I had even more sure of that, whenever Enzo provoked me, instigating me to play with him.

"Enzo, Come back here! You stepped on my foot on purpose!"

I exclaimed as I ran with haste, trying to reach him. He was beyond me and walked toward one of the pilasters. I ended up holding one side of his dark cloak and pulled him to me.

"Come back here! You almost crushed my foot!"

I said smiling and he turned to face me, smiling too, but removed my hand from his cloak and turned me around, since so, putting my back to a pillar that was closer to us.

Our giggles discontinued and we remained stopped in the same place. One facing each other. Behind me, I just felt the pilaster supporting my back and in front of me, I saw the mystical image of Enzo. He was so serious and his gray eyes looked at my face with circumspection. The palm of his hand slid down one side of my face and he kept staring at me with a strange gaze.

All my existence, I had never witnessed that look. It looked fallen asleep for centuries and it was awakened at that moment, just on the very day of my eighteenth birthday.

It was strange because at that moment I could not see him as my friend...

Then I felt his face close to mine and his lips would win right destination, but Enzo thought of us for a few seconds and raised more his head. Then he removed his palm from my face's lateral and walked away, as he walked backward, he gave me a silent and disappointed look.

At that moment, I had a thump and unfastened from the memories of my past in Neptune. My eyes were a little alarmed at Wendel's image.

I ended up comparing our dance that second with the day of the dance on my 18th birthday in Enzo's company. This all after Wendel had stepped on my foot and had brought me the recall what Enzo had done this to me in Neptune. I thought only Enzo did it and stepped on my foot during the dances. But not, I was wrong.

"Excuse me." removed my hands from his shoulder and stared at him with my eyes full of lamentation by my past. "But I cannot continue this dance with you, I am sorry."

Giving this explanation to him, I pulled away and walked to one side, rubbing my forehead with one hand. Really I felt stunned by it all. To carry within me the feeling of my 18th birthday, and exactly the moment what Enzo stepped on my foot and I ran after him, our stop at the pilaster and our lips almost warming each other...

These memories were not allowed and welcome in my brain...

I always wanted to erase them or keep them much away from my mind...